On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:12:17 +0200 Renaud Allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's exactly what I have done. First moving to dovecot from UW-imap > and then switching to Maildir. > > What you should know is that UW-imap keep a "beginning of mailbox" > message in your mbox. Dovecot doesn't, so all your users will receive > a mail like "this is the beginning of your mail folder, don't delete > this message". It's quite obvious that there is no risk in deleting > it because dovecot doesn't care about this message and shows it as a > real message. So your users may be surprised if you don't tell them > before the switch. > This may be true of Dovecot 0.99.x but Dovecot-1.0-testXX and Dovecot-1.0-stable (which is a "stable" version of the 1.0-test series intended for those needing 1.0-test features in production systems) understand the pseudo-message. Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
